Kathleen Shaw

Kathleen Shaw

Full name

Gertrude Kathleen Shaw

nation

United Kingdom

birthday

January 18, 1903

place of birth

Barton-upon-Irwell

date of death

1983

Career

discipline

Single run

Medal table

World Cup medals

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World figure skating championships
bronze	Stockholm 1926	Ladies

Gertrude Kathleen Shaw (born January 18, 1903 in Barton-upon-Irwell , England , † 1983 in Wales ) was a British figure skater who started in a single run .

Kathleen Shaw won the first women's competition at British championships in 1927. Madge Syers , Dorothy Greenhough-Smith and Phyllis Johnson had won their titles in the men's competition as there was no women's competition yet. In 1929 and 1930 Shaw was again British champion. At the first European championship , in which there was a separate women's competition, Shaw took eighth place in Berlin in 1930 . She took part in three world championships , her greatest success was winning the bronze medal at the world championship in Stockholm in 1926 , behind Herma Szabó and Sonja Henie . Shaw represented Great Britain at two Olympics . In 1924 in Chamonix she was seventh and in 1928 in St. Moritz fourteenth.

Results

Kathleen Shaw in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

personal data
SURNAME	Shaw, Kathleen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Shaw, Gertrude Kathleen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British figure skater
DATE OF BIRTH	January 18, 1903
DATE OF DEATH	1983